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Many computer applications take advantage of computer-generated numeric sequences having properties very similar to truly random variables. Sequences generated by computer algorithms through mathematical operations are not really random, having no intrinsic unpredictability, and are necessarily deterministic and reproducible.
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In realistic cases of finite numeric precision, one of the extreme values is excluded. It would have a corresponding zero probability, in the case of infinite precision, but it is not the case with finite machine precision.
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Lista, L. (2016). Random Numbers and Monte Carlo Methods. In: Statistical Methods for Data Analysis in Particle Physics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 909. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20176-4_4
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